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Warlpiri Wh ‐Scope Marking
Author(s) -
Legate Julie Anne
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00151.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , covert , dependency (uml) , phrase , computer science , linguistics , matrix (chemical analysis) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , materials science , composite material
. This article analyses the wh ‐scope‐marking construction in Warlpiri. The literature on wh ‐scope‐marking constructions in other languages debates the relative merits of two types of analyses—the direct‐dependency account, which posits covert movement of an embedded wh ‐phrase to replace a matrix expletive, and the indirect‐dependency account, which treats the embedded question as the restriction of a matrix wh ‐phrase. I argue that an explanation of the Warlpiri data can only be achieved through a variant of the indirect‐dependency approach.